Year 1: What is English 1?; what is English 2?; applied study: the history of western thought; what is history?; the world turned upside down. Year 2: American romanticism; 19th century writing: literature and historical change; all the world's a stage: Shakespeare, cinema and society; the causes, course and consequences of the French Revolution; Victorian Britain; Russian in revolution 1894-1939. Year 3: Representations in British national cinema; gender, writing and difference: 1960-present day; Cuba in revolution; crime and punishment: 1800-1900.